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Installing Firefox on Kubuntu 6.06

I installed Kubuntu 6.06 today after receiving my free CD's from Shipit. The installation went pretty smoothly though I did notice that as opposed to previous release this time around one had to start Kubuntu to Install there was no option at the boot screen to only start installer.After installing when i tried browsing the internet , i was surprised that mature distribution like Kubuntu did not have Firefox preinstalled it came as shock to me as i never expected this,even though Konqueror is a nice browser but still it dosen't have all the features or is as mature as Firefox.Also MP3 support was missing as was for someother popular formats used on Windows, however i did expect this as these are proprietary formats but firefox was something which is free and could have easily been included. So i decided to write an article explaining Linux Newbies how to install these and make ubuntu a better Linux Desktop replacement.

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted ## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced ## after the final release of the distribution. deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe' ## repository. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security ## team. deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/ dapper free non-free deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/ dapper free non-free

After doing this type at the console : -

sudo aptitude update

Now installing FireFox : -

sudo aptitude install mozilla-firefox

After this a series of messages would be shown and mozilla package and all other packages it needs will be downloaded and installed .If everything goes well at the end of installation you should be able to launch firefox by typing : -firefox at the console.

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